Herbert from Siddhartha Farm is here since 1993. After he arrived he started to work with agriculture which was hardly developed at that time. Promoting organic cultures he started Siddhartha Farm whe...

Windarra has large vegetable gardens; orchards with guava, mango, citrus, cashew and sour sop trees; rosella, tennai, and sesame fields; a forest with timber, oil-seed and work trees; and a small fiel...

Sustainable farm needs a sustainable supply of seeds, water and nutrients. Seeds that are grown and saved on the farm develop characteristics that enable them to grow even better in the particular env...

  Composting is the biological process of  breaking down organic material into a humus-like product useful for gardening. At Buddha Garden composting is an important way of recycling organic...

The technique of building and maintaining raised beds for the cultivation of vegetables, is developed under climatological conditions of the South East Coast of India. This is a step-by-step manual of...

Over-irrigation is the number one reason for the overexploitation of groundwater. With free electricity from the government, pumps are often left on 24 hours a day. An organic farmer of Maharashtra ca...

  Self assessment of Buddha garden sustainability.  

What do Aurovilians want to eat? What do they think of Auroville grown and produced food compared to food grown and produced outside Auroville? What are the overall community food requirements? How ar...

Home gardening contributes to household food security by providing direct access to food that can be harvested, prepared and fed to the family, often on a daily basis. Gardening may be done with virtu...

Agricultural experiments in Auroville are a synthesis of many different methods, such as Biodynamics, Permaculture, Organic farming, Effective Microorganisms (EM), Vermiculture, etc, and of progressi...